Place:

Barnston
Cheshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Barnston like this:

BARNSTON, a township in Woodchurch parish, Cheshire; 4 miles N of Great Neston. It has a post office under Birkenhead. There is a tunnel of the Grand Trunk canal here, 550 yards long. Acres, 1,068. Real property, £1,325. Pop., 252. Houses, 52.